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I would start with contacting people in your town or area. Tell them that you recently became interested in problem X and offer to meet with them whenever and wherever they choose. You also need to do a lot of homework to ask intelligent qu
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2y ago
Assuming it happened as described, the likely reason is that their apps have been blocked/censored for years (i.e., they don't work) thanks to the Chinese Government.
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2y ago
Eich's position was exactly the same as Obama and Hillary Clinton on the issue, so calling it "dumb and/or controversial" isn't grounded in reality. The controversial opinion and actions belonged to the Board and ce
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3y ago
> "Monolithic Architecture" // shows diagram with like 5 boxes on it... Those five boxes represent a web proxy/server, an async system (likely analgous to an AMPQ server, Celery, etc.), a caching server, and fina
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3y ago
Let's be real, MS doesn't give a flying flip about support. They use their customers as alpha and beta testers. It has been a few years, but the last time I used Premium Support it was a miserable experience. The agents knew about
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3y ago
Yes, StarLinks have been used in Sea Baby drones[0]. Newer versions and drones are equipped with another method of internet access either in replacement of/in addition to StarLink. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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3y ago
Ukraine's naval drones are a combination of automated and remote piloted using StarLink (with some lag). So it is possible that these aerial drones are some combination of automated and remote piloted.
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3y ago
Agreed, this looks really cool. While there is no Django/DRF support at the moment, it does say that that they'll be increasing the number of packages in the future.
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3y ago
The fact that we have a phrase (mid-life crisis) for radical change later in life, should clue people into the fact that some significant portion of older people are capable of change. Most new businesses in the US are started by people ove
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3y ago
Setting SQLite PRAGMAs via Django settings was recently merged. I would expect to see this show up in the next version or two of Django. https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/24018 With the proper PRAGMAs set and moder
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3y ago
Your lack of experience and absence of preconceptions is a golden time. First , interview your customers (internal and external), to see how the team/company are perceived and what is important to them. Explain to them that you are t
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3y ago
Thanks for mentioning Entrywan, they look great from what I can tell on their site. Have you used their services? If so, I'm curious about your experiences with them.
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3y ago
> Sure. When you use API, you can design it with a domain-specific data format. When you use SSR, you stick to HTML page overhead. Now you hydration, your JS to run, and a custom serialization/deserialization format (and a custom pa
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3y ago
> Less traffic in data-rich apps (even taking into account compression, HTML is heavier than JSON and not just due to syntax overhead - consider all those page headers, footers and other common parts). This statement is way too overly br
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3y ago
Unless I'm doing SELECT *, I almost always want quite a few pieces of data. Therefore it is more natural to say: "Let's go to Starbucks and get coffee, soda, danishes, sandwhiches, soda, and a coffee cup." It would be co
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3y ago
> I am confused about htmx because if it is about AJAX, they don't replace the window URL as user clicks about and around unless you explicitly tell HTMX to do so. When you use `hx-boost` (one of the most common uses), it does an aj
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3y ago
Are you allowed to take hours of recordings of Sean Connery's voice, splice words into sentences, and make a radio commercial out of it without paying Connery? You aren't, but this is exactly what AI companies are doing. AI compan
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3y ago
This has been my go to file manager for years. It is the first thing I install on a new phone. It can even mount network file systems like ftp, sftp, and smb. I use the sftp and it works really well all things considered. edit: double bonus
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> The bigger the company the less likely anyone will attempt to give you specific information about why you are being terminated during the termination meeting - I think your expectations of how things should work don't match the re
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3y ago
The first time I read Prince's response, I felt it was OK-ish with some problems. However after a second reading, I have decided that it's terrible. 1. He starts by trying to minimize the issue instead of apologizing talking about
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3y ago
> They did. They said it was for performance reasons and offered to book a longer, second call to talk about it. Who shows up to fire someone without any specifics at all? That is utterly incompetent and completely unprofessional, even f
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3y ago
Did you not deal with the debacle of js changing imports how imports work? That was absolutely miserable and js libraries have a very short half life indeed. JavaScript's culture of small, relatively short lived libraries makes maintai
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3y ago
I think the difference between now and back then is that now the top administration of the universities have become politically more active. Before it was mostly students and faculty, which makes sense. edit: I would also note that the such
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3y ago
> Go after the churches and religious organizations first This veers into whataboutism, and changing the subject. Both can be done at the same time as they are not mutually exclusive. It is not an either or question and it distracts from
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3y ago
Categorization sounds like a good job for AI. Yahoo execs, are you paying attention? :)
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3y ago
Yes, it works for most search engines.
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> no snark here, but the subtitle was the start of my confusion: what does "user-friendly" mean in the context of grep, and why should I believe the claim? Granted, it is far from a thing of beauty, but there is a large, captio
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3y ago
> * ultra fast -- This at least means something, but it should be quantified in some way. "50%+ faster for most uses cases" or something like that. That would be begging for nerd rage posts, just like so many disputing the benc
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3y ago
Try uBlacklist, it's like uBlock, but for search results. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublacklist/ https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublacklist/pnc
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> I feel like if you're going to make a new grep and put a web page for it, your webpage should start with why your grep is better than the default (or all the other ones). No snark here, but is the subtitle not enough to start? &q
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